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The Wild Wild West: They’re Off!
Lots of big stories after the first weekend—the Lakers, the Clippers, the Warriors, the Blazers, the Rockets. The New Orleans Hornets emerged from the season’s first weekend with a gaudy 2-1 record.…Read More
NBA West: Already Hurting and 82 Games to Go
I’m jacked about the NBA openers tonight but the league is starting off ominously. In two hours the Lakers will take the court and no one knows if Kobe Bryant will be among them. Dwight Howard supposedly…Read More
Western Conference Preview: The Los Angeles Lakers—Too Big to Fail?
Yeah, I saved the Lakers for last. They’re probably the best team in the NBA–and definitely the most interesting. Why? Because they have the most head-cases. And not just spread evenly over…Read More
Western Conference Preview: The Los Angeles Clippers—How High the Moon
This is the best team the Clippers have ever had. They have the personnel to win the West, but a couple of problems loom: They’re old and will probably have trouble staying healthy, and they have the…Read More
Western Conference Preview: San Antonio Spurs—Confident or Complacent?
The West seems to be all about the Thunder and the Lakers. The blue-collar Spurs like it that way. Even though they have been consistently excellent, still have the nucleus of earlier championship teams,…Read More
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Western Conference Preview: The Denver Nuggets–Still Knockin’ but Need to Knock Down the Door
Like the Grizzlies, the Nuggets could hardly improve their roster. They both have solid players everywhere…Read More
Western Conference Preview: The Memphis Grizzlies—Too Much D in an O League
What can you say about the Grizz that hasn’t been said already? Actually, quite a bit. For one thing,…Read More
Western Conference Preview: The Dallas Mavericks—Dirk’s World
The Mavs are a motley crew, a hodge-podge of very good players that will need some time to mesh. Maybe…Read More
Western Conference Preview: The Utah Jazz–Against the Odds
The Jazz have been to the playoffs for five of the last six years. Has anyone noticed? Last year their…Read More
Western Conference Preview: The Phoenix Suns–Stuck in the Middle
I was going to subtitle this, “Apres Nash, le deluge,” but two French subtitles in a row just wouldn’t…Read More
Western Conference Preview: The Portland Trailblazers: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Just showin’ off with the French but the meaning really does apply to the Blazers: The more things…Read More
Western Conference Preview: The Houston Rockets–Rebuilding (Again)
What with all of the player movement during the off-season you’d expect a lot of teams to have a new…Read More
Western Conference Preview: The Golden State Warriors–Ready to Exhale
The Dubyas are starting their second season out from under Don Nelson, the winningest coach in NBA history…Read More
Western Conference Roundup: The New Orleans Hornets—On the Verge
The Hornets struck gold in last June’s draft, jumping from the fourth-worst record to the first overall…Read More
Western Roundup: The Sacramento Kinks, er, Kings
(Every couple of days I’ll be reviewing one of the 15 teams in the Western Conference, starting roughly…Read More
Geography is Destiny: How the West Continues to be Won
Ah, September, the time for football, for baseball’s stretch run and, to the true freak, the imminent…Read More
NBA Pre-preseason Winners and Losers
Every year around draft day I think of the enormous amount of talent annually available to the NBA. For…Read More
Lakers Give More for Howard—But Get More
My last blog, written soon after The Trade was announced, gave details of the deal that, 24 hours later,…Read More
Bynum-for-Howard: Lakers Pull it Off
While writing my first blog of the pre-preseason, the news broke about the Dwight Howard deal. Wow. I…Read More
Lakers Zap Hornets in Pivotal Game Five–106-90
Those wacky Lakers went and did it again: They played great. In fact, they looked like a great team getting…Read More
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